The most successful radical action after Stonewall was an office sit-in.

Evidence

The most successful downtown action since drag queens battled police at Stonewall last June was terminated when forty cops stormed the building. Over the next weekend, members of the Guardian staff broke into the paper’s offices and with support from Rat, the Gay Liberation Front, and Newsreel, created a commune that, although lasting only long enough for the landlord to call in the police, effectively split the publication in two. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1543

Categorization

• CANDY: The commune lasted exactly ‘long enough for the landlord to call in the police’ — a funny, characteristic detail of the era’s radical gestures.